Johnson to pursue justice fellowship

Posted: Sunday, September 11, 2005

Athens Banner-Herald staff writer Joe Johnson has earned a Racial Justice Fellowship, along with 11 other journalists representing media companies such as the Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Orange County Register and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

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The Racial Justice Fellowships, awarded by the USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism, have been awarded to 12 journalists who are committed to producing in-depth stories that involve issues of race and ethnicity, race relations and coverage of communities of color.

During the fellowship period, the journalists will work on individual projects that will appear in their newspapers, wire services and broadcast outlets.

From Sept. 19-24 they will attend a conference, co-sponsored by IJJ and the Nieman Foundation, at Harvard University. During that week, they will meet with scholars, experts and journalists to discuss media coverage of race as well as examine how race and ethnicity intersect with such issues as health, education, criminal justice, civil rights and the environment.

The journalists will reconvene at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla. on March 14-19 to review their projects with their editors and with fellowship colleagues. They will join members of the Poynter faculty in exploring the reporting of uncovered communities and examining issues that deal with race and ethnicity. Fellowship projects will be completed and ready for publication or broadcast in spring 2006. The program is funded by the Ford Foundation.